FORMULA 1 MSC CRUISES BELGIAN GRAND PRIX 2023

Circuit stats
First Grand Prix 1950
Number of laps 44
Lap record 1:46.286 Valtteri Bottas (2018)
2022 winner Max Verstappen

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  • BowserDelta@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    5 Seconds is a bit of a joke considering they were alongside in the corner and the track conditions 🙄

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      He’s had a lot of bad luck this season, but i feel his drives have gone under the radar a bit. He’s in a new team and has been more or less on the same racepace as Ocon from the get-go. Very interested to see how the fight between the two develops.

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      1 year ago

      Shouldn’t he get a penalty for unsafe release? He almost crashed into Stroll. Why was there no mention of this from race control?

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        Gasly and Leclerc both looked like they should have gotten unsafe release penalties. I guess the stewards decided to be lenient considering the chaos in the pits.

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          1 year ago

          I guess so, but I can’t agree with that decision. We have multiple formation laps because otherwise there could be dangerous situations. Sargent get’s a penalty for speeding in the pit lane, a rule that exists to prevent dangerous situations. But when there are actual dangerous situations, they chose to do nothing? A

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      1 year ago

      Checo floundering and Danny Ric in the points in an Alpha Tauri. I think we all know what thoughts are going through Helmut’s head right now.

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      1 year ago

      Finished way ahead of Tsunoda and (by luck) ahead of Perez, that looks good for him

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    1 year ago

    While we wait, thought I’d share this from the stream:

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    1 year ago

    Great strategy from McLaren. Interested to see how things work out with no DRS for Max.

    Gasly got a huge jump. Finally a W for Alpine. Sainz got shafted unfortunately.

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      1 year ago

      There’s possibly not enough time to run the session. There’s only an hour without rain forecast and based on Sprint Qualifying it’ll take half an hour once the rain stops to get started.

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      1 year ago

      I just watched the race and I didn’t notice the hole until I saw a post on Reddit, I don’t think it was obvious during the race that there was that much damage.

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    1 year ago

    If this is the threshold for the amount of spray to race then we’ll never see a full wet race again.